You see more sitting still than chasing after.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.